my setup are: hda - pri hdd with winME + 2K hdb - sec hdd with RH6.2 recently i altered the lilo.conf for boot=/dev/hda8 and issue the cmd dd if=/dev/hdb8/vml.... of=boot.img i copied the boot.img to c: drive now i screwed up the entire thing. i cant start up at all. anyone has a remedy. tks in advance.

That should work.

Try booting from your Linux Rescue CD and rerun LILO from the CD. It should detect Windows ME as well as your existing Linux, and will setup the original boot configuration. P.S. Just wanted to see if that kind of post would work.

Assuming you have a winME bootdisk, boot up to the a:\ then type FDISK /MBR then reboot, should fix it up and make winME boot, maybe someone esle can help you getting lilo going from there. Robbo

tks alot pal. will try it out. robbo - tried yr method earlier but it still can't detect my hda. tks anyway.

FYI: lilo saves the old boot record in case of a fowl up. Nice thing about Suse is the CD will let you boot an existing system. If you have a backup disk you will also be able to get in. The option is lilo -u. I also have (on one machine lilo on a floppy disk).From the man page. You may have tampered with the system a bit to much at this point I do not know if it uses lilo.conf( you may be able to give it the device on the command line .i.e /dev/hda). -u device-name Uninstall lilo, by copying the saved boot sector back. A time-stamp is checked.